Do you believe in miracles? Yes! RG3 wins Heisman Trophy!

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Wow! I still can’t believe it. I saw the projections, but I said I’d believe it when I saw it. And now it’s true. Robert Griffin III, a first-class act with one degree and about to earn his master’s, has won the Heisman Trophy.

Just think: A Baylor player won the Heisman Trophy. We’re talking about Baylor. Shocking.

I grew up in Waco. My father, Curtis McClain, loved Baylor football. He talked about it all the time. He used to park the car where Baylor used to play at Municipal Stadium — that was before Baylor Stadium — and tell me about the best players and teams Baylor had in the old Southwest Conference.

The first Baylor game I can remember was 1960. I was a Cub Scout. The Bears beat Colorado.

I was a die-hard fan who attended games when the program almost folded under Bill Beall. In 1972, nobody wanted to coach Baylor. Everybody turned them down until they got to their 10th coach, Grant Teaff. Nobody knew who he was, but Teaff rebuilt the program and took the Bears to two Cotton Bowls as the SWC champion.

When Teaff retired, the program almost died again. They hired and fired three head coaches. Finally, Baylor hired Art Briles from the University of Houston. I thought he was crazy and told him so. He compared Baylor to a sleeping giant that could be awakened. I thought he was nuts and told him so.

Griffin, who wasn’t highly recruited, committed to Houston because of Briles. When he went to Baylor, he got Griffin to commit to the Bears. Briles left behind Case Keenum, so the Cougars couldn’t be unhappy.

Briles told Griffin if he joined him at Baylor, he’d be a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. If I had known that, I would have told Briles he was crazy.

Well, Briles was right every time. They’re 9-3 and if they beat Washington in the Alamo Bowl, they’ll win 10 games for the first time since 1980 when Mike Singletary was a junior All-American linebacker.

What a season.

RG3 has represented Baylor with class. He’s a genuine role model. If he were to return for his senior year, he’d have to get clearance from the NCAA. He’d be a first-year law student. I don’t think the NCAA has ever had a first-year law student quarterbacking a team.

I’ll be stunned if he returns. His value as an NFL quarterback is going up. It’ll be interesting to see what his height is when the NFL measures him. He’s listed at 6-2. Standing next to the 6-4 Andrew Luck, well, I’m hoping Luck was wearing high heels because Griffin looked shorter by more than 2 inches.

And those Superman socks with a cape. If you check out twitter, there are more comments about the socks than his accomplishments.

Oh, I just thought of something.

Here’s a joke I used to use in speeches that I can’t use anymore: The joke went like this:

I ran into O.J. in Canton one day. We talked about his good old days in the NFL. I told him I was curious about something. He said, “What?” I said, “Well, when you and Al Cowlings were in the white Bronco, where were you going? Nobody ever said where you were going.” So O.J. told me, “We were going to Waco.” I was stunned. I said, “Waco? Why Waco?” And O.J. looked at me with a smirk and said, “Cause nobody would ever think to look for a Heisman Trophy winner in Waco.”